Owan West

Owan West is a Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Sabongidda Ora.

Owan West
LGA
Country	Nigeria
State	Edo State
Area
• Total	283 sq mi (732 km^2)
Time zone	UTC+1 (WAT)

It has an area of 732 km² and a population of 97,388 at the 2006 census.

The postal code of the area is 313.[1]

Wedding customs

Wedding List is the list given to the intending groom looking to marry a woman from Sabongida Ora (Owan West). Everything on the list is to be purchased and presented at the traditional wedding ceremony (this is to be fixed and agreed on before list is given). The content of the list varies based on the family head, the standard however are;

1. Bride's dowry (depends on the head of the family)
2. Suitcase of clothes
3. An umbrella
4. A Small basin of egusi seeds
5. Twenty-one tubers of yam
6. One smoked/dried antelope
7. Twenty-one kola-nuts (double lobed)
8. One large dried fish
9. Twenty-one pieces of bitter kola
10. A keg of palmwine
11. Twenty-one pieces of alligator pepper
12. Two bottles of schnapps
13. Two bottles of dry gin
14. Two kegs of palm oil (25 litres)
15. Two bags of salt
16. One she-goat
17. A bottle of honey
18. A packet of sugar
19. Two cartons of beer
20. Two cartons of malt drink
21. Two crates each of 3 different soda drinks i.e. Cola, Pepsi, Fanta, Mirinda, Sprite etc.

• Idegbe #500 (depends on family)
• Igele #500 (depends on family)
• Erahoin #1,000 (depends on family)
• Iyanhoin #500 (depends on family)

References

1. "Post Offices- with map of LGA". NIPOST. Archived from the original on 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2009-10-20.